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Edith Ann Hamlin (1902-1992) was an American landscape and portrait painter and muralist. She is known for her social realism murals created while working with the Federal Art Project (FAP) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression == Biography == Born in Oakland, California, as a small child she was exposed to art by her father who took her on sketching trips. Hamlin attended the California School of Fine Arts and the Teachers College at Columbia University. She maintained a studio in San Diego studio throughout the 1920s. In 1933 Hamlin was briefly married to artist, Albert Barrows, by 1936 they divorced.〔 During the early 1930s, she traveled around New Mexico and Arizona. She completed a WPA mural project for Mission High School in San Francisco and was selected to paint murals at the Coit Tower.〔 On the second floor of Coit Tower she completed a mural named "Sports and Hunting in California" however it currently has limited public access due to its location. Hamlin's second marriage was to Maynard Dixon in 1937, they met while working for the WPA on the Mission High School mural.〔 Together they moved to Tucson in 1939 〔 and maintained a summer home in Mt. Carmel, Utah. In Tucson she completed numerous public murals and projects. After Dixon died in 1946, Hamlin returned to San Francisco, where she died in 1992.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edith Hamlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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